Cat Trapping Advice

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This is kind of long and rambling, but if anyone has any advice I'd
appreciate. My experience trapping cats is very limited.
DH tells me there is a feral tuxedo kitten at work. He says it has a
close to zero chance of long-term survival. It will eventually get
mangled in machinery or run over by a truck.

So he wants to trap it. I have arranged to borrow a trap for tomorrow
night when he goes to work. We SO do not need another cat. But this
cat can't be taken to the shelter, it's too wild.

He wants to keep it in the garage until it tames down considerably,
and after that we really don't have a plan. DH says, even if it is a
yard cat/barn cat here it has a much better chance and a better life
than a feral in a paper factory. PFFT. Yard cat. It will be in the
house sleeping with us on the bed a year from now. I'm not sure how old
it is. He keeps calling it a "baby kitten" so I imagine pretty small.

This will make six cats. That's too many for a house this size. But I
just don't see that we have much choice. We do have a nice barn with 3
barn-cat neutered male ferals that I've had for several years. I don't
think they would accept an interloper though. And I just couldn't turn
a "baby kitten" out like that.
Well, anyway, purrs for a successful trapping on Tuesday night. And
purrs that the kitten is still there and hasn't already come to a bad
end since DH has been off for the weekend.

Shmogg and IBKFergus are both ex-ferals, particularly IBKFergus, who was no
doubt a kitten to a long line of generationally feral 'steelworks cats'.
Both are now tame. IBKFergus is still *insanely* hoolikittenish, but has no
problems coming up to any of her hoomins for a scratch & a cuddle, doesn't
bolt at the sight of mad toddler hurtling towards her, and beats up Fluffy
whenever the need takes her (also licks Fluffy's ears when the mood strikes,
so she's not anti-dog).

I know what you mean about thinking you have 'too many' cats already, which
is why we aren't adopting Jet (but don't worry, there's a cunning plan in
place that we'll tell you about when it gets enacted), but to my way of
thinking, if the Mothership decides that you will have another cat, another
cat you shall have.

Good luck with the trapping (IBKFergus took one look at the chicken in my
hands, and almost climbed into my t-shirt of her own accord) and lots of
purrs for hte intergration to go well.

Yowie